Of COURSE, his cult will deny he said it. But he said it nevertheless. We checked with Politifact.
From "The Lancet" - The premier British medical journal - "Public policy and health in the Trump era"
The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health examined Trump's actions and assessed their impact on public health. Among the actions by Trump cited by the commission are that he:
Politicised and repudiated science, leaving the USA unprepared and exposed to the COVID-19 pandemicEviscerated environmental regulation, hastening global warmingIncited racial, nativist, and religious hatred, provoking vigilante and police violenceDenied refuge to migrants fleeing violence and oppression, and abused immigrant detaineesUndermined health coverageWeakened food assistance programmesCurtailed reproductive rightsUndermined global cooperation for health, and triggered trade warsShifted resources from social programmes to military spending and tax windfalls for corporations and the wealthySubverted democracy both nationally and internationally
https://tinyurl.com/yjqnwcu6
According to Kate Riga and Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo, Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Azar gave "health officials the impression that their
stockpiles would grow and allow them to dramatically expand the
vaccination effort. [...] That promise turned out to be
entirely hollow — there was no such reserve, as the administration had
already been shipping out all the vaccine available, taking second doses
right off the manufacturing line."
That's what Biden meant when he said there was no vaccine when he took office. Trump had NO RESERVES. He'd depleted the reserves; leaving Biden with nothing to work with.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-covid-vaccination-distribution-biden
From STAT: "Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall" - It is almost like they WANTED the vaccination roll-out to fail.
"Trump officials started lobbying Congress to deny states the money [for vaccinations] last fall."
-- WHY would Trump want to DENY states money they need to protect Americans? Only one explanation makes sense.
In 2017 the Trump administration halted the nearly completed effort by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to develop airborne infection control standards for workplaces
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency." -- Donald J. Trump
"Pfizer notably did not accept government money to develop, test or expand manufacturing capacity under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative ..."
https://tinyurl.com/y33h76tn
Nuking right winger lies is just ONE of my many hobbies.
“How could scientists race out COVID-19 vaccines so fast . . .? A head start helped; over a decade of behind-the-scenes research that had new vaccine technology poised for a challenge just as the coronavirus erupted.” - PBS
Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) asked Fauci why the NIH abruptly canceled funding for the project, which specifically worked to understand the risk of bat coronaviruses jumping to humans and causing devastating disease.
Fauci responded to Veasey saying: “It was cancelled because the NIH was told to cancel it.”
“And why were they told to cancel it?” Veasey pressed.
“I don’t know the reason, but we were told to cancel it,” Fauci said.
